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视为

shì wéi

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 視為

视为 (shì wéi) means "to view as; to see as; to consider to be". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 视为 means

1. to view as
2. to see as
3. to consider to be
4. to deem

The characters in 视为

• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as

Example sentences

• 她被视为日本的毕加索。
  Tā bèi shìwéi Rìběn de Bìjiāsuǒ.
  She is known as the Japanese Picasso.
• 他被视为村里最好的医生。
  He is regarded as the best doctor in the village.
• 我将水果视为最健康的食物。
  Wǒ jiāng shuǐguǒ shìwéi zuì jiànkāng de shíwù.
  I consider fruit to be the healthiest food.
• 我将他的缺席视为没有兴趣。
  Wǒ jiāng tā de quēxí shìwéi méiyǒu xìngqù.
  I took his not coming to indicate that he wasn't interested.
• 他们把他视为城里最好的医生。
  Tāmen bǎ tā shìwéi chéng lǐ zuì hǎo de yīshēng.
  They regarded him as the best doctor in town.
• 我把你视为我最要好的朋友之一。
  I consider you one of my closest friends.

Words starting with 视为

• 视为知己shì wéi zhī jǐto consider sb as close friend (idiom); to take into one's confidence
• 视为畏途shì wéi wèi túto view as dangerous (idiom); afraid to do sth

Sounds the same

Read shì wéi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 室韦the Shiwei tribes who inhabited an area to the northeast of Tang-dynasty China

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